By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A former FBI agent who sold confidential information to a man bent on damaging the reputation of a Bangladeshi political rival was sentenced to five years in prison Monday, the New York Daily News.
Robert Lustyik, 53, of Westchester County, New York, received tens of thousands of dollars in 2011 to sell the information.
Working for the counterintelligence squad at the FBI’s White Plains office, Lustyik had access to damaging documents.
“Robert Lustyik’s criminal conduct, driven by greed and corruption, displayed a disdain for the integrity for which the FBI stands,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.
